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Trump showed his support on Sunday for Modi by attending a rally with him before Indian-Americans in Houston, where the Hindu nationalist leader accused Pakistan of fomenting extremism.

Article 370 of the Constitution of India

Trump urges India, Pakistan to ‘work it out’

by AFPThu 26 Sep 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Tensions have soared this year between India and Pakistan, which have fought three full-fledged wars, two over the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir

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Dubai

India set to direct Pakistan exports via Dubai

by James MathewThu 8 Aug 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Federation of Indian Exporters Organisations president Sharad Kumar Saraf says suspension of trade relations will affect Pakistan more

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired a fresh meeting of the National Security Committee, branded Modi's decree "unilateral and illegal" and said there will be a "review of bilateral arrangements".

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Pakistan downgrades ties with India in deepening Kashmir row

by AFPThu 8 Aug 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

India stripped the Himalayan region of its seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status on Monday

Pakistan is banning Indian flights in retaliation to India revoking Article 370 earlier this week declaring Jammu and Kashmir as Union Territory with legislature and Ladakh another UT.

Article 370 of the Constitution of India

Pakistan to close airspace for Indian flights – reports

by Gavin GibbonWed 7 Aug 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Move comes amid increasing tensions between neighbouring countries

Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard at a roadblock at Maisuma locality in Srinagar on August 4, 2019.

India-Pakistan crisis

Indian Kashmir under lockdown order amid troop build-up: state govt

by AFPMon 5 Aug 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

The recent tensions started in the last 10 days after New Delhi deployed at least 10,000 troops, but a security source said a further 70,000 had been dispatched

India has deployed at least 10,000 troops there in recent days, with media reports of a further 25,000 ordered to Kashmir.

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India, Pakistan trade attack claims as Kashmir tensions rise

by AFPSun 4 Aug 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Tourists and students scrambling to leave Kashmir since Jammu and Kashmir state government said they should leave “immediately”

The closure disrupted Indian flights headed west, forced Pakistan International Airlines to suspend some of its flights, and effectively closed off major international routes in and out of Islamabad and Lahore.

Aviation

Pakistan reopens airspace to civilian traffic, ending months of flight restrictions

by AFPTue 16 Jul 2019Thu 7 Oct 2021

Pakistan closed its airspace completely after aerial dogfights in February ratcheted up tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi

The Indian army separately said it brought down a drone on Saturday in Ganganagar in the state of Rajasthan, a city near its border with Pakistan.

Abhinandan Varthaman

India says Pakistan violated cease-fire agreement in Kashmir

by BloombergSun 10 Mar 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

There was shelling with mortars and the firing of small arms by Pakistan in the early hours of Sunday

Abhinandan Varthaman

Video: Are tensions escalating between India and Pakistan?

by ITPTue 5 Mar 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Tensions between India and Pakistan raged Saturday as heavy firing by their armies killed at least seven people on either side of their fiercely disputed Kashmir border.

As the world held its breath, Khan, 66, made the surprise announcement that the captured pilot, handlebar-moustached Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, would be freed in a "peace gesture".

Abhinandan Varthaman

Tempers cool after Kashmir crisis, with Modi and Khan cast as peacemakers

by AFPMon 4 Mar 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since 1947, and two of the Asian nations’ three wars have been over the Muslim-majority mountainous territory

Airlines registered in the UAE are now able to resume flights to Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar.

Abu Dhabi International Airport

UAE lifts suspension on flights to Pakistan

by Sam BridgeFri 1 Mar 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

UAE airlines are given the green light to resume services to Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar amid Indian tensions

India

Pakistan says will free Indian pilot as ‘peace gesture’

by AFPThu 28 Feb 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Prime Minister Imran Khan tells a joint session of parliament that the Indian pilot will be released on Friday

Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan controled Kashmir at Somani area in Bhimbar district near the Line of Control on February 27, 2019.

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Risk of India-Pakistan war may hang on the fate of downed pilot

by BloombergThu 28 Feb 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

While the US, Russia and China are all calling for calm, domestic political pressures make it far from easy for either side in the conflict to back down